Example sentences of "[pron] [vb mod] return [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I have a key , borrowed from the lady Alianor 's apartment , but I must return ere midnight , lest my absence be discovered . ’ |
| 2 | Knowing of my discontent , Alec Harvey-Bailey suggested that I should return to Rolls-Royce , perhaps as chief quality engineer , or head of the service department — both good jobs . |
| 3 | ‘ If it happens I 'll return to Aunt Bertha to tell her he is well and kept busy , and then I 'll go home to Wellington . ’ |
| 4 | Every evening I 'd return from school , do my chores and my homework ( and smoke five Woodbines ) , then meet him at Corporation Street baths at 5.30 . |
| 5 | That day I made a vow to myself that I would return to Athens and run better . |
| 6 | ‘ But I know if I ever left , I would return to Middlesbrough at the end of my career and support my home club . |
| 7 | Then I did ask myself if we would see this place again ; and when Jaffa started to disappear to our starboard , I remember I said to myself : ‘ If this ship could turn round now , I would return to Jaffa . ’ |
| 8 | I told Joan de Warenne I would return in May , Edward thought — I little knew then that such calamity and change of fortune would summon me hither ! |
| 9 | When the band plays Four Nations Once Again , then I shall return to Ireland . |
| 10 | ‘ A temporary farewell only — I doubt not I shall return to court in the summer , whether it be at Westminster , Eltham or Richmond . |
| 11 | ‘ I shall return to work around February 1 , ’ said the consultant . |
| 12 | At this point I shall return to Hirsch , who argues that there can be no intrinsic understanding of literature , only a variety of understandings : ‘ Aesthetic categories are intrinsic to aesthetic inquiries , but not to the nature of literary work . |
| 13 | I shall return in chapters 6 and 7 to consider these points more fully in the context of a model of weak and strong ties . |
| 14 | Not all objectors to the Hinkley C plan supported such a straightforward advocacy of coal , especially with the growing problems of acid rain pollution and the greenhouse effect to which I shall return in Part Three . |
| 15 | The slow , retrograde axial rotation of Venus is a puzzle to which I shall return in section 4.2 . |
| 16 | I will return to Wordsworth — whether or no he has an extended vision or a circumscribed grandeur — whether he is an eagle in his nest , or on the wing . |
| 17 | Walking back to his office after the ceremony in January 1959 , de Gaulle is reported to have turned to his new prime minister and said : " This evening I will return to Colombey . |
| 18 | I will return to Ford , if I get the opportunity — which I hope will now be afforded me . |
| 19 | While such phrases do not do justice to its many insights — to which I will return in Chapter 8 — there are nevertheless some serious weaknesses in the approach . |
| 20 | The costs of children may be divided into direct costs — the outlay on the baby and mother around the time of birth , and indirect costs — the amounts foregone by mothers who take time out of paid employment , and who may return to work part-time and at lower rates of pay . |
| 21 | There are a few conditions ; you must have been sailing within the area or bands briefed by the flotilla skipper , timing starts when the lead boat acknowledges the failure , and you must return to UK with a report signed by the flotilla skipper detailing the circumstances . |
| 22 | Given your date of confinement of you should return to work on or before |
| 23 | I want to assure him Crevecoeur is in no danger , but that SHe must return to Club Eleusis . ’ |
| 24 | And if the recession continued much longer she might return to London to find herself looking for some other occupation to keep the roof over her head — but that was her secret . |
| 25 | You 're supposed to toss a coin into the water so — so you 'll return to Rome someday . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ You 'll return to Berlin tonight , fly to Lisbon tomorrow . |
| 27 | You know sometimes the way forward is backward , there are no short cuts with god , if he 's leading along a certain path and were disobedient , there 's no way we can opt out of it and join the trail further along , he does n't allow it , its back to where we left it , that 's were we 've got ta get back to , we ca n't skip an experience , we ca n't miss any thing out , we 've got to go back to where we start , where we were when we left the trail and Naomi has to do just that to go back to Bethlehem , that 's the way forward for her , and you see because we all , we always find this if we are really children of god , then we can never ever be satisfied away from the will of god , there 's nothing else that meets our need , its god will or nothing , you know , when we know frustration in our lives , when we know sort of the , these annoyances and , and , and , and er sense of frustration there , its not because god is leaving us that way its invariably cos we have actually gone out of gods will because he 's will is not frustrated , its satisfying , can I just , it will only really be headings this morning , just leave us with three brief headings in this little incident that we 'll read or we , we wo n't read the whole passage but its , er in the remainder of the , or more or less the whole of the remainder of the first chapter tha that the cost was involved and then the choices that were made and then the commitment , the cost that was involved Naomi had to pay something , you see before she could return to Naomi she had to con , before Naomi sorry could return er to , to Bethlehem , she had to acknowledge she 'd done wrong , she had failed , she had sinned , she had to acknowledge she had made a mistake now in fairness to Naomi she did it and she excepted her responsibility , she did n't try and shift the blame on |
| 28 | Bernadette Quli asked Carmen , who lives opposite her , to look after Farrah so she could return to work . |
| 29 | In the autumn she could return to Vancouver and begin doing locums — substituting for doctors going on holidays or trips or to take courses — until the day she had repaid her loans and could begin to look at having her own practice . |
| 30 | He paid regular visits to Cambridge to see Valerie , and she would return to camp from these visits absolutely dying to pour out all her troubles to somebody , and as her bed was right next to mine it was usually me who had the honour . |